An item reported that the Dutch corvette Hr. Ms. Sommelsdijk (1) and the Hr.Ms. Atjeh (2) would be present at Kiel, Germany at the opening of the Kiel Canal.(3)
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1. Screw steamship 4th class, call sign GQVD, laid down at the naval yard at Amsterdam, Netherlands on9 July 1881, launched on 15 November 1892, commissioned on 16 August 1884, classified as corvette on 12 May 1893, fitted out as accommodation ship for sailors and added to the Hr. Ms. Het Loo, commissioned on 31 May 1905, later added to the Hr. Ms. Atjeh, decommissioned in March 1912 and transferred to the naval yard at Amsterdam to be fitted out as fishery patrol which was however never realized and finally sold in 1914. Dimensions 45,00-53,60 x 9,00 x 3,60 metres, displacement 850 tons, horsepower 750 ihp, speed 11,43 miles, her crew numbered 88 men and an armament of 1-15cm gun and 3-12cm guns. Iron-built wood planked. Building costs when first fitted out ƒ 614.715,00.
2. Screw steamship 1st class, call sign GQCN, laid down at the navy yard at Amsterdam, Netherlands on 3 March 1875, launched on 6 December 1876, commissioned on 1 November 1877, converted at the shipyard De Lastdrager, Den Helder, Netherlands into an accommodation ship in 1906, commissioned on 8 November 1906, also used as training ship for sailors and Royal Netherlands Navy reserve, decommissioned as training ship on 21 May 1921, accommodation ship for the air force at Willemsoord until 1922, disarmed and stricken in 1929, sold for ƒ 23.501,00 to the N.V. Frank Rijsdijk’s industriële onderneming, Hendrik-Ido-Ambacht, Netherlands to be broken up on 4 June 1935. Original specifications displacement 2.995 salt water tons-2.919 cubic metres, tonnage gross 2.160,17 tons (Moorsom classification), engineering room 1.163,53 tons and net excluded engineering room 996,65 tons, dimensions 80,00 (between perpendiculars)-84,30 (outside prow-outside rudder stern on load line)-91,85 (over all)x 12,10 (maximum on thrushes or within iron hull)-12,50 (on load line with wood planking hull) x 5,16 (design load line fore)-6,02 (design load line aft) x 7,67-10,22 (hold) metres, one 2.186 ihp horizontal direct working single expansion engine, speed 14,25 knots and a main armament of 6-17cm guns and 4-12cm guns.
3. Opening was on 20 June 1895 connecting the North Sea with the Baltic.
